Peckham

UK MUSIC NEWS: GIGGS – FROM RAPPER TO CLOTHING DESIGNER

May 11, 2010

UK rapper and Peckham resident Giggs is turning in to a right little entrepreneur. Giggs has now entered into the world of fashion and has ‘created’ his own clothing line SN1 Wear. Check out the stunning photographs and video footage below… Via Ragggs.com The House of Sean John must be quaking in their boots right now. There’s nothing particularly special about the menswear. It’s okay. But the womens wear looks dated and tacky. Women were wearing those types of dresses back in the early nineties. We are now in 2010. Who […]

UK MUSIC: GIGGS – ‘LOOK WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN’

April 19, 2010

Check out rapper Gigg’s latest offering Look What The Cat Dragged In. “I’m a breast man but I rate arses” “Diabetes fiening the chocolate” “I done it bare back I take chances” I’ve said it before and I will say it again Giggs is a lyrical BEAST I tells ya! UK STAND UP!!! The video – You can tell that Giggs has gone up in the world and now signed to a label.  It looks as if at least a grand was […]

UK MUSIC NEWS: RAPPER GIGGS CONCERT CANCELLED AFTER POLICE WARNING

February 23, 2010

Sad, sad news folks…. The Guardian  reports that rapper Giggs’ concert has been cancelled after police warned concert venues of safety concerns. Giggs, from Peckham, London, and recently signed to XL Recordings, was due to play 10 dates starting tomorrow in Birmingham. However, police confirmed that they warned organisers about security concerns after being contacted by the promoters for Giggs’ London date on 4 March at the O2 Islington Academy. Continue Reading…. Well this news doesn’t surprise me. Just think about the type […]

UK MUSIC: GIGGS FEATURING B.O.B – ‘DON’T GO THERE’

January 6, 2010

Peckham meets Atlanta folks! UK rapper Giggs teams up with Atlanta based artist B.O.B and has produced the new track Don’t Go There. The label (XL) is really pushing the ‘Giggs machine’ in 2010!  Collaborating with US artists and his album Let Em Have It is apparently set to drop in April. It’s all go! I look forward to watching the MOBO Awards performance and hearing the speech……. Anyway back to track! I like the beat and the hook. As for the video… 1xtra’s Mista Jam describes it as being an “amazing video” via his blog’. I personally […]

UK MUSIC NEWS: RAPPER GIGGS MAKES BBC SOUND OF 2010 LIST

December 7, 2009

UK rapper Giggs has made it in to the 2010 BBC Sound of 2010 long list. Click here to view the other fourteen acts that have also made it on to the list. ………………………………………………………………………………… Well this is a surprise! I had no idea that the folks over at BBC towers were feelin Giggs lyricism/ flow like that. And to think MTV Base refused to play his music!  This is a proud day for the ‘mans dem’ who spend their days standing outside Dixie Chicken in Peckham – in fact it’s a proud day for the entire […]

UK RAPPER GIGGS SIGNS TO XL RECORDINGS

August 15, 2009

The word on the grimey street is that UK rapper Giggs has now signed to XL Recordings. Well……I never saw this coming…. This is going to be interesting…… Giggs – You Raised Me/Open Up Giggs ft The Streets ‘Slow Song’

PREGNANT PRISONER IN UK CUSTODY

August 6, 2009

Via BBC News A pregnant Briton jailed for smuggling heroin in Laos has been handed to UK Ministry of Justice officials, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said. The transfer took place in Vientiane, capital of Laos. Samantha Orobator will now return to the UK to give birth and serve out her life sentence in Britain. Orobator, 20, from Peckham, south London, was caught with 1.5lb (680g) of heroin in August last year. She avoided Laos’s mandatory death penalty because of her pregnancy. […]

UK MUSIC: GIGGS FT THE STREETS – SLOW SONGS

May 24, 2009

Several days ago UK rapper/BET Best UK Hip Hop winner Giggs crossed my mind. I wondered what had happened to him because all had gone quiet on the music front, and I hadn’t received any more emails attacking me for not being one of his biggest supporters. But then the new track ‘Slow Songs’ featuring The Streets was brought to my attention [Thanks Melissa]. Mike Skinner (The Streets) also produced the track, which will officially drop later on in the year. I […]

UK RAPPER/BET AWARD WINNER GIGGS LASHES OUT AT BBC, MTV AND THE UK INDUSTRY

November 26, 2008

Giggs – The BET UK Award winner has lashed out at the UK industry by releasing a you tube video naming the industry executives in the European market he believes are trying to stop his career from growing.   MTV Base and The BBC’s 1Xtra supremo controllers have been named, as Giggs warns even though they are “Black Balling” him, he will not be stopped.   ‘The Last Straw’ was removed before the BET awards after it was raised as an issue that would disallow […]